Summary: The Jews successfully employed nationalism as a weapon to destroy Christendom, dividing it into several political entities, each with its own national church. Now they are trying the same tactic to divide the Muslim community.

Author Biography: Sayyid Qutb is the author of In the Shade of Qur’an, a commentary on the Qur’an from which this article is extracted. The Egyptian Islamic activist was executed in 1966 for his outspoken activism.

We will now consider some aspects of the divine wisdom behind making faith the supreme tie of Islamic society. Faith is indeed the noblest characteristic of man which distinguishes him from animals. It relates to the spiritual side of human existence which no class of animal shares.

Summary: Beyond giving drinking water to the pilgrims and maintaining the Sacred Mosque, Saudi Arabia has failed to provide leadership to the Muslim world. As the Muslim Brotherhood consolidates power in Egypt, the most populous and most powerful Arab country is moving to fill the vacuum.

As Muslims heighten protests against an American-made anti-Islam propaganda film, Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has called on Washington “to ensure insulting billions of people, one-and-a-half billion people and their beliefs, does not happen” again on US soil. In this demand Mr. Qadil was tacitly but clearly setting forth the role that his country has assigned itself in the new world order.

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Summary: The effort of building human relationship on the basis of faith created an open and all-inclusive Islamic community in which people of various races, nations, languages and colours lived as brothers and sisters, and most importantly, as equals.